Public affairs chiefs at war! Chris Whitehouse turns on Francis Ingham
Charles Lewington's agency has brought in Dominic Murphy to boost its bench of ex-Labour advisers.
Mark Glover has apologised for how for the agency listed a campaign for transport lobby groups.
Newington staff sent on code of conduct training after client ‘confusion’
Headland wins Pret A Manger public affairs and corporate work
Newington Communications investigates potential industry code breach
Jo Johnson has a vision of the UK becoming 'a nation of lobbyists'
Napoleon Bonaparte famously called England “a nation of shopkeepers”. More than 200 years later, could it be time to change the record?
On the Today programme, Jo Johnson appeared to...
Cavendish boss gets an appetite for 9.15am breakfast food ban
Cavendish Place has had the Starbucks account for two years now. The coffee giant was picked up from Finsbury following a keenly-fought competitive pitch in 2016 and is a major client for the...
Vince Cable's spin doctor moves from exotic spresms to ‘special situations’
Financial PR firm Powerscourt has hired the Liberal Democrat leader's spinner as a senior consultant, it has been reported this week by a rival outlet.
Sound familiar? That would be...
Daniel Koski: Why Government must embrace the smartphone state
In Paris they are familiar with revolution. So it is apt that world leaders including Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau are gathered in the city today for the first GovTech Summit....
Chris Rogers: How we got Philip Hammond to freeze spirits duty
The politics of this year’s Budget were hardly conducive to even a freeze in excise duty on alcohol, including much-loved UK produced spirits like Scotch Whisky and gin. The Chancellor had to meet...
Nick Pickles: Nick Clegg will do much more than lobbying for Facebook
The interplay between government and industry is one I’ve long been sceptical of, especially where procurement or specialist regulation is involved. There should be a much more robust framework to...
Lunch with... Jon McLeod
My opening question to Jon McLeod is my usual sarcastic one: what shall we talk about? To which most people respond with a weary resignation ‘Brexit'. But not Jon, who says football.
"Well...
A marriage made in Brexit - but what's next for Hanbury Strategy?
At 7am on the morning after the EU referendum, David Cameron’s strategy director was in Number 10 when he received a call on his mobile. “Michael Gove wants to pass a message to the prime minister...
Lunch with... Leon Cook
Until earlier this year, Leon Cook was a director at APCO Worldwide. He is also a former communications director at the European Azerbaijan Society. He and I caught up over lunch at the usual...